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J ITT, A'I IjA A I i\ * ill<UitUlA A AMI .N MV ». SUITE REAOY FOB GREAT The ministerial committee on “Gk>- t••►Church Day announced Wednes- ay that all arrangements for^the event had been completed, and that all that remained was to wait for the great outpouring of people to Ihe rltljrche* next Sunday. Tbe move ment also ha? epread to many other itie.a in the State. \fembcrs of the committee have r* eived assurances of hearty co-op eration from practically the entire ministry of Atlanta, and are confident that there will he a record attend- * nee in the churches that never hue been approached before in the history . f the city So thorough has been the work of Mome of the ministers In behalf of oe success of the day that they hove ee»en that no person still with a mem bership In their church was without an individual invitation to attend both services next Sunday This p an is expected to result In the attend ance of many people who have not been to church before iri months and The pastors hope for lasting results In the wav of lnrper congregation* through the coming year. Return postcard* were sent to all of the churches of I lie city Wednes day On these the pastors will enter •he totals for their morning and even ing services, together with the nor- ( rnal or average attendance and mail The cards immediately after the even 1ng service, so as to facilitate the compilation of the figures U*e Ordinary Postcard. If. because of a change of address or a .'bango of pastors, any church fails to receive Hr card, the pastor or * rrk is ieqnested to use an ordinary postcard and M l in these figures, des- Ignating tiie name of the church and the present pastor Dr Caleb A. Ridley, pastor of < >n- trnl Baptist Church, arrived Wednes- j day from Athens, where for the last ten day s he has been engaged in a j great revival in the Tabernacle Bap tist Church. He will apeak at the j mid-week prayer service Wednesday night and at both service* Sunday The people of Athens urged Dr. ; Ridley to continue the revival throughout the week but he declined, stating that he felt it his duty to nc- . upy his qwn pulpit on next Sunday, which has been set aside by all the churches of Atlanta as “Go-to-Church Day/' Every possible effort has been put forth by tlie Central church to make the occasion a great succors, and it ^ expected that the building will be axed to its utmost capacity at hot it morning and evening services Spe cial music will be rendered by Cen- SELECT NOW A pair of OPERA GLASSES. Something all can use and noth ing more appreciated Jno u. Moore * Sons have tlwdr lar»o assortment of I/cmalre and other good makes ready for your inspe - Hon Call and see them 42 N. Broad street. iral chorus. <>f which there are about 00 member*. Dispatches from various points in the State indicate that th* movement for a State-wide “Go-to-Church Day' is meeting with an enthiJHlastic re ception. Cordel© Indorses Movement. Thim i* from 'Hie Georgian s Cot- dele correspondent; “The ’Go-to-Church Day’ cam paign. originated by The Georgian, and which will be observed by scores of churches over the State on Sun day. December 14, will be Inaugurated by tiie members of the Methodist Church of Cordele on next Friday evening, when a reception will lie given at the church for tiie new pas te r. the Rev. Walter Anthony, arid hia family. Every member of thq church will be Invited to thin event. This reception 1* being held for the purpose of welcoming the new' pastor and for tiie adoption of plans to in crease church attendance “Colonel Hugh Lasse ter will make an address, thoroughly diveuasing and commending t he movement suggested by 'I’iie Georgian, organizing the en tire number of member* of the church in attendance upon the reception into a committee to work for ’Go-to- Church Day’ and make it a splendid success. Efforts will be made per sonally and by use of the mails to Induce every member of the church to attend." Dalton Promise# Support. The project met with as great ap proval In Dalton. A dispatch from there says; “Ministers and laymen of Dalton churches are unanimous in their in dorsement of 'Pile Georgian’s move ment to make Sunday. December 14, ’Go-to-Church Day/ all characteriz ing the plan as an excellent one. Work will lie conducted here this week In an effort to get munv ha bitual non-churchgoers out to re ligious services next Sunday. "Rev. F. K. Sims, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, speaks of the movement as an Ideal one. He Bays ‘If we can get those who have not been attending church services to be present next Sunday, we can .show them how* easy It is to attend. Then, by making the services specially In teresting, we can get them to attend regularly/ “ "Rev W. R Foote, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and Rev, F B. Farrar, pastor of the Second Bap tist Church, are others who are heart ily in accord with the suggestion.” Newnan for State Observance. In Newnan, tiie Rev. Joseph Han nah. of the Presbyterian Church, Dr l> R Thames, of the First Baptist Church, and the Rev. H. I. Edmond son. of the First Methodist, spoke favorably of the “Oo-to-Church” movement, and said that the idea, which at first was intended to stimu late church-going only in Atlanta, could very well be extended in its purpose so as to take in the entire State. Reports from Newnan are to the effect that a record-breaking attend ance 1s looked for there Sunday. Spe cial services will be held in all of the hurches GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY AND BE BETTER FOR IT Atlaula is to have the first “Go-to-Church Day” in its his tory next Sunday. If you arc otic of those loyal people who attend Church' 1 services regularly rain or shine then you will be Ihere next Sunday as usual But this is addressed particularly to the irregular church- j goers and to those who possibly haven 't heeri inside their church for the last six months or a year. Do yourself, your church and your city a benefit next Sun day by celebrating “Go-to-Chureh Day." The observance of the day is very simple. All one has to do is to attend the morning and evening services, adding his presence to the record-breaking throng that will he out. You may get haek into the habit of attending church regu- < larl.v if you go next Sunday and become infected with the joy ousness and enthusiasm of the big congregations. You will feel ' better for it if you do. I.eaving aside the personal feature, you will add to the attendance of your church, and you will help swell the grand total of the attendance for the whole city of Atlanta a total that is expected 1o eclipse every other record ever set in a city of this si/e. The ministers and the laity are determined to make next Sunday epochal. Help them do it. WELFARE SH 0W NEW LAW STOPS IS SPECIAL HIGH QUALITY LOW PRICE FOR THIRTY DAYS WF ARK OFFERING Best Modern Expert Dental Work at Lowest Possible Prices—GUARANTEED Crown and Bridge Work Porcelain or Gold-Faced To Suit $15 Gold Dust Plates $8 Set of Teeth Crown and Bridge Work Teeth PA« and Filled up Painless Extraction EXAMINATION FREE $10 $ 5 $ 3 50c THE PLAYS THIS WEEK “Over the Sea” Winning. The English melodrama "Over 111#* Sea," this week's offering of the Jewell Kelley company at the Bi jou. is attracting large and enthusi ast if* audiences. Differing in style from most of the melodrama* thit have been offered by the company, the play 1* doubly interesting, and the costumes, as well as the scenes of the play, add to the interest • >f tin* production. The company an nounce* for next week one of the strongest American melodrama \ “The Denver Express.” a play that will doubtless prove one of the most popular In the company’s repertoire. “Butterfly on the Wheel.” Few' plays that have been offered at the Lyric this season are so in tensely Interesting as "The Butter fly on the Wheel” that is scoring a well deserved hit this week at the Carnegie way theater. The story .s one that teaches a strong lesson, and during its long run in New York received the unqualified in dorsement of press and public. The company, headed by Miss Eleanor Montell, Is a most capable one and Mis* Montell herself is scoring t splendid hit. The stage production is complete and the performance is really on** of the most entertaining of the, season. “The Butterfly on th* Wheel” should do excellent business this we»*k. Yvette, Whirlwind, at Forsyth. Yvette, a second Eva Tanguay, ex cept that this one is an adept artist on tin* violin, is appearing at the Forsyth this week. This young lady of eccentric qualities in meeting with one of the biggest successes that any single artist has ever met with in Atlanta. Her whirlwind dancing in connection with her playing and a wonderful voi6e also all help to make this an act of worth-while merit. The Australian Boy Scouts exhibit drills, blanket throwing and the manipula tion of rifles in a very clever fashion, and there Is a great deal of interest inasmuch as this is one of the Scout organizations. The Nichols Sisters entertain in a lively way, and the other acts are meritorius Music Association To Give Reception To Channing Ellery Telegrams received by Colonel W. L. Peel, of the Music Festival As sociation, Wednesday, announced that Channing Ellery, the noted held of the Ellery Royal Italian Band, will be In Atlanta in person this week in connection with the appearance of the band for a. series of concerts at the Auditorium-Armory. The Music Festival A*sociation has arranged for an informal reception to Mr. Ellery at the Ansley Hotel Friday evening at 5 o'clock. All At lanta music lovers are invited by the association to come and meet Mr. Ellery at this time. The opening concert will lake place on Friday night at the Auditorium. Tickets will be on sale at the door The Music Festival Association as sures the public that this will be one of the notable events of the musical year. A. S. Colyar Bound Over for Swindle: On the charge of cheating and swindling. A. S. Colyar was bound over to the grand Jury under bond cfl $750 at Rome Tuesday. Tile direct charges against him are that he ob tained three notes for $750 from Mrs. S. C. Awtrey, a wealthy resident of Rome, under representations that a son was in trouble, and that Colyar could get him out of it for this amount. Colyar made bond at once and it is probable that his case will be tri.d next week. ANOTHER PASTOR CALLED. COLUMBUS, Dec 10.—The Rev. W. J*. Reaves, of Tuscumbia, Ala., having notified the First Baptist Church of Phenix City that he could not accept a call to the pastorate, the Rev. P. O. Boyer, of Richmond, has now been called It BLAZE Blaze Starts in "Baby Section.” Firemen's Quick Work Saves Leyden House Exhibit, The Child Welfare and Public Health Exhibit, In the old l^eyden House on Peachtree street, narrowly escaped destruction Wednesday morning, between 5 and 6 o'clock when fire broke out in the “baby sec tion" on the first floor Prompt work by the fire depart ment saved the exhibit. One or two panels and posters were scorched, and slight damage wao done To the walls. The fire is supposed to have started from a defective flue. There was no one in the building except George Brown, the janitor, and the night watchman. Brown had arrived early to build the fires. After starting the furnace, he went to the second floor, driectly above the room where the “baby exhibit” Is located, to sweep. Smoke coming through the cracks in the floor attracted his attention. He ran downstairs. The “baby room." th** second to the right as one enters tiie building, was filled with smoke, and flames were shooting out from the walls. Brown <dosed the door to prevent ah getting to the fire, and imme diately called the fire department. When the firemen arrived the house was full of smoke. Hose from the chemical tanks was run into the building, and the fire was extin guished. The fire attracted considerable at tention among the morning throngs on Peachtree street, and several hun dred persons gathered to watch the bla/.e. Restaurant Burns On Decatur Street. Fire of mysterious origin destroyed the restaurant of S. H. Goldberg, No. 4f>2 Decatur street, at an early hour Wednesday morning, causing a loss estimated at several hundred dollars. The building was in flames when the Are was discovered by a passing pedestrian, and before the fire depart ment could arrive was burned almost to the ground. The firemen were un able to save the building or any of its contents, and most of their work was directed toward preventing the flames from spreading to surrounding build ings Rigid Rules for 1914 Make City License Forfeit if U. S. Receipt Is Held. MACON, Dec. 10.—Saloons in Ma con will operate next year under rigid regulations. An ordinance adopted by Council last night provides, in part, that sa loons holding Federal Internal reve nue license* for the sale of malt or spirituous liquors will have their city licenses forfeited; that saloons can not have any front screens, shades, or stained window*, that all beverage* must be fully labeled, that no sa loons will be licensed to do business In or near residential sections or in alleys, with the exception of one block In one alley; that conviction in any court for violating the prohibi tion law or Injunction by the Supe rior Court for selling liquor will en tail forfeiture of the city license. The price of the license is $250. a reduction of $50. All regulations ask ed by the Law Enforcement League, with two exceptions, were granted. The ft&iture as to the possession of an internal revenue license is calcu lated to prevent the sale of liquor. S, E, Berry, State Assemblyman, Dies At Home in Dalton DALTON. Dec. 10.—P. E. Berry, Representative in the Georgia Legis lature from Whitfield County, is dead at his home here, following a two weeks’ illness, His death came un expectedly, for he appeared to be greatly Improved. Valvular heart trouble was the cause. Mr. Berry was 60 years of age. He is survived by his wife and six chi’- dren—Mrs, M. E Heggie, of Chatta nooga; Mrs. Albert R Kelly, of Bris tol. Va.; Marvin Berry, of Calhoun and Miss Alberta Berry and Gordon and Sam E. Berry, Jr., of this city Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. W. R. Foote at the First Methodist Church Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Packers Cut Prices 25 Per Cent in Year; Retailers Get Profit e cpnsu oin# to- who buys beef ribs and lorn#* to-day paying just about as much as he did till* time last year, is giving his r* taller a profit of about 25 per cent over the profit of 1912. This is because *>f th decreased coat of meat to the re lailer. “Ribs and loins are being sol<Y from 15, to 35 per ce*t less now than at this time last year by the wholesale dealer.’’ said T. E Wilson, of Morris & Co. “The wholesaler has reduced the price to the retailer because there is a greater sup ply now than within recent months. In most cases the price has not been ac cordingly lowered to the consumer ” Following are the prices quoted‘now and in December, 1912: No. 1 loin 38c 17&e No. 1 ribs 25c 16c A corresponding decrease in the wholesale price of pork is also shown For Stoddardizing Men’s Suits and Overcoats A Wagon for a Phon# Call We pay Chargee tone way) on Out-of-Town Orders of $2 or mors. Stoddard 126 Peachtree Street Bell Phone, Ivy 43 Atlanta Phone 43 Dixie’s Greatest Dry Cleaner and Dyer CONSTIPATION VANISHES One little chocolate coated HOT SI’RINGK LIVER HUTTON to-night means joyful satisfaction in the morn ing They are wonderful, willing work ers. and the way they tone up a torpid liver and drive foul secretion* from the bowels is a blessing. They are fine for upset stomach, too. and lack of appetite, als.t for nervous ness. biliousness an<f dizziness. If you will take one a night for a week you'll know what ambition and energy really are You’ll look better, too; your skin will be clearer; pimples will start to disap pear and eyes will brighten with the su preme Joy of living. A box for 25 cents at all druggists find money back if they aren’t Just the best for constipation you ever tried. For free sample, write Hot Springs Chemical Co., Hot Springs. Ark.—Advt. DR. E. G. GRIFFIN’S Gate City Dental Rooms 24 1-2 Whitehall Street, Over Brown & Allen’s Telephone Main 1708. Lady Attendant Established 23 Years Both Drs. E. G. Griffin and S. A. Griffin Per sonally in Charge Best $8 Plates Fit Guaranteed Made Same Day ONLY $5 CRAVATS Hosiery and Handkerchiefs In Matched Sets for Christmas EIGHT BEAUTIFUL SHADES These matched sets are becoming more popular every season. We anticipated the great demand—and the result—Eight Beautiful Shades to show you to-day—• Purple, Lavender, Tan. Pearl. Gray. Wed. Navy and Cadet. A combination in these shades consisting of Silk Cravat, Silk Ho- sierv and Silk Handkerchief. $1.50 Matched Sots, consisting of two peiees—Handkerchief and Cravat also Cravat and Hosiery in same shades as the above. These sets are onlv— » $1.00 If it's an Individual Cravat you want here you will find an ex clusive range—no two alike. Imported Silks—extra tine quality—$3.00 each* Another handsome range in tine Imported Satins—handsomely de signed in rich colors—$2.00. Siill—a very interesting range of perfect Cravats front 50c to $1.50. If Living Out of Town, Better Order Now Parks - Chambers - Hardwick 37-39 Peachtree CoiTipciny Atlanta, Ga. “THANK YOU,” SAY WE Our sale opened with a rush yesterday. Some customers were not waited upon. We regret this, but are grateful for the great response to our ads. More salespeople are here now, and we are positively in position to give every caller personal attention. Not only read the prices— But Come—Take Advantage of This Sale of Fine Sample Pianos Direct from the Factory. Read— Then Come. These are indeed golden opportunities—the kind that seldom come. Two/carloads of fine Pianos at prices worth investigating during this Great Holiday Sale. Read here of a few of the exceptional Piano values that await you. 1 Fine $400 New Sample Piano $287.00 1 Fine $350 New Sample Piano $249.00 1 Fine $300 New Sample Piano $216.00 1 Fine $250 New Sample Piano.. $179.00 1 Fine $200 New Sample Piano. $143.50 SLIGHTLY USED AND SECOND-HAND PIANOS 1 Fine Mahogany Case, was $400, now.... $125.00 1 Fine Oak Case, was $400, now $110.00 1 Fine Second-hand Upright Ebony Case... $ 87.00 1 Fine Second-hand Upright Walnut Case.. $ 52.00 Do not delay. Call at once, while you have a large stock to select from. Make your wife or daughter an Xmas present of one of these fine sample pianos. Bear in mind, every.piano is fully warranted for ten years. Call, make your selection and make a small deposit, and we will hold the piano to be delivered Xmas eve, if so desired. Bear in mind this is a real, bona fide sale. Open every evening until 9 o’clock. Cut this “ad” out, bring with you, and we will allow a oash credit of $10.00 on any new piano in our house. Railroad Fare Refunded to Out-of-Town Purchasers HOWARD BROS. & CO. 89 NORTH PRYOR STREET Bell Phont: !>> SIM. W. H. HOWARD, Propri.tor